My brother did not like living or working there and soon got the family the hell out. The attitude of most of the people he encountered was horrible, my SIL was treated like shit and they had to have an escort onto the EL AL plane when they first went out because the natives were restless and pushing them.
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Yes, I can understand that. The Israelis I have met in business circles have been rude and arrogant.
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Israel does’t give a damn about Ukraine Jane. Israel wants a regional war supported by the idiot Biden to consolidate their annexation of Gaza and the West Bank.
So the bastards in Isreal wind it all up, Russia comes in to support Iran (their weapons supplier) and the bloody yanks have their two battle groups offshore. All because of right wing religious shits Ben-Giver and Smotrich pulling the strings of a devious crook Netanyahu.
Brilliant, what not to like?
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How can you possess Bly support the murder and naming of innocent children? I’m appalled by your comments.
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Is that supposed to be funny? Sick.
@jacktom, do you think the 0000’s of rockets that Hezbollah send over the border have specific military targets or is the sole purpose to kill as many Israeli’s as possible?
The Israeli pager attack was a major security failure by Hezbollah who are a terrorist organisation and not a group striving for peace in the region.
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This action by Israel was either a war crime or an act of terror. The world needs to decide which or both,
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While it’s unfortunate that children have been injured and killed, this is possibly the most precise anti-terrorist strike since the Yanks last used their knife missile to kill Ayman Al-Zawahiri a couple of years again.
Odd that your first post on a forum mainly concerned with the trials and tribulations of Brits living in France would be on this issue.
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Sadly, it seems to be normal for terrorist organisations to either run whole countries or like Hezbollah, operate as a state within a state. A question we might ask is how can the peoples of this area - Israelis, Palestinians, Lebanese, Iranians, and others rid themselves of these groups?
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Not odd at all - tend not to post but when somebody can find humour in the murder and maiming of innocent children I make an exception. Don’t know what any of this has to do with ‘trials and tribulations’ of people living in France.
But Susannah’s picture does NOT make fun of killing and injuring children (or adult civilians). Rather it shows the futility of a terrorist organisation trying to manage against a technologically superior enemy.
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Perhaps the incensed post is by someone not aware of the traditional service use of carrier pigeons?
The danger of social media scatter shot from an un illuminated seating position. More ammo misuse.
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The history of conflict in the area is long and complicated and possibly interminable.
On Friday, the Lebanese group Hezbollah announced that Ibrahim Aqeel — one of its top military commanders and a man the United States accused of helping to plan the 1983 bombings — had been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a building in the southern Beirut neighborhoods that are a Hezbollah stronghold.
Not far from where he died, just on the other side of Beirut’s international airport, on Oct. 23, 1983, a suicide bomber drove a Mercedes truck packed with a massive amount of explosives into a barracks housing sleeping peacekeepers from the U.S. Marine Corps. The stupendous explosion felt across the capital killed 241 American service members and injured more than 100 others.
A second suicide bomber who drove into a building housing French peacekeeping forces killing an additional 60 soldiers.
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Thing is - who stood up to help the Jews in WWII? BTW I am not a Jew.
The answer to that is, not many. The war wasn’t about that. The world largely turned a blind eye to the plight or the Jews.
Google “SS St Louis”
Hundreds from that ship perished at the hands of the Nazis when safe haven was refused by several countries.
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Give me a break! The Palestinians have been massacred, displaced and abused since 1948. Peace is easily achieved if they say yes, take our land, bulldoze our homes and kill our children.
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More utter, utter twaddle.
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Palestine was a conquered territory by 1947. The problem, surely is that the Palestinians refused to accept their lot, started a civil war in 1948 resulting in total defeat by zionist forces and the subsequent creation of Israel. They weren’t " massacred displaced and abused", they lost a war and became refugees. Thats what happens in wars. They started it and they lost. They appear to have continued going downhill ever since. They allowed terrorists to take control and they indiscriminately attacked Israel, starting a new war. I have read that the population of Palestine outnumbers the terrorists in their midst by 100 to 200 to 1, depending on which authorities figures you believe. They could overthrow the terrorist regime if they wanted to, but they choose not to… Now the few Israelis that I met in a work capacity in years gone by were not people i would choose to spend time with socially, but maybe thats just a cultural difference and I cannot judge a nation on a handful of people, so I think the Israeli response has been remarkably restrained all the way through this current war. The death of innocent children is regrettable, but it happens in wars. If you need to apportion blame as some on here would like to, blame the parents for electing and supporting a terrorist regime. Blame the terrorist regime for its activities. Accusing Israel of war crimes? Laughable, in my opinion . The explosive pagers? Inspired i would say, (as an act of war).
Finally, I have been on this forum for about 5 years (ish) and rarely feel the need to comment, since generally i agree with the answers already voiced. But in this instance i felt the need to respond to your comments.
Wasn’t Palestine ceded by the occupying Western powers to what was to become the state of Israel without any consultation with the existing population. That’s not quite the same situation as ‘conquered’ and even if it was, still raises a lot of problematic questions.
Conquered? By whom?
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Well that’s complete bollix for a start Toxo, isn’t it? 
It’s just Israeli propaganda, an attempt to say all Palestinians are to blame for October 7th. It sounds like a line Goebbels might have come up with.
The genocidal IDF have just killed 41,000 people, at least a third of them children, and wounded a 100,000 more. Yet, despite having the most sophisticated and deadly weapons on the Planet, they haven’t “overthrown” Hamas. In fact, their atrocities are recruiting for Hamas and Hezbollah.
So, how could the residents of Gaza, trying to scratch a living in an Israeli blockaded concentration camp for the last fourteen years, manage what the might of the IDF can’t?
I guess the thrust of your argument is that the Palestinians should just “suck it up”. Let the Israelis take Gaza and the West Bank and just bugger off. But where Toxo, where?
To end on a more collegial note, I can agree with you that the Israelis I have met were unpleasant people too. I think the rudeness is cultural.
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